Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-09-16
IN GENERAL.

ANAN@A 80
The county treasury at Greenville. O.,
was robbed Of SIS, 900 on Sunday night.
call has been issued by 200 lawyers.
farmers and ministers of Virginia for a mass
state convention at Staunton on Sept 90 TO
form state prohibition party
dirty, ragged picture which was re-
Gently bought for song of London
picture dealer turns out to be landscape
with figures by Claude Lorraine and done
in that masters best style
Philip Armour, the Chicago king pork
packer. has given S4nO 900 for the estab-
iishment of children's mission in Chicago.
1t comprises a school, kindergarten and
dispensary. There are 1000 children on its
rolls.
Big Stone Gap, in the mountain range
dividing Southwestern Virginia and East
ern Kentucky, is to be the centre of eight
railroads, most of which are now under
construction. There are large quantities
Of iron ore, coal and limestone near the
gap, and big industrial town is projected.
Walter Pierce Of Gloversville. n. va
boy of :, smoked - cigarets after break
fast the other day and then lay down on a
sofa At dinner time he was found perfect
ly unconscious, and it took doctor several
hours to restore him. He will recover this
time, and vows that he will have nothing
more to do with cigarets
Gen. KilpatricS's widow is on her way
from Chill with the body of her husband,
who died there few years ago She will
reach this country about the middle of the
month, and the body will be buried in the
family plot near Deckertown. n j.,
according to the generals wishes.
Rather disparaging accounts are given of
Charles Dickens the younger, who is to give
readings in this country during the fall and
winter He is described as round of face
and weak of feature, spectacled, and with
neither physical nor dramatic power in his
delivery, But he is a good fellow and truly
English.
The British government is strengthening
the defenses of Halifax harbor. New fort
itications are being erected at the extreme
point of McNab's island, on which will be
stationed two ter-inch breech- loading guns
weighing - tons each. These guns will
have an explosive power of 200 pounds of
powder and will carry an 500 pound shot a
distance of miles
In Pilgrims Progress as translated
into japanese and illustrated by native
artists, Christian has a close shaven Mon
golian head, Vanity Fair is a feast of Ian
terms with popular japanese amusements,
the dungeon Of Giant Despair is one of those
large wooden cages in which Eastern Grim
inals are confined, and the angels waiting
to receive the pilgrims on the further side
OF the hridgelesS river are dressed in Yuko-
hama fashion
Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime Rock, is
now forty-two years old, and begins to show
signs Of the wear and tear of her hard life.
She lives alone in the light house, her par
bpiutr lAnl aud ha,. Ir,tla,. -,
follow the sea. Miss Lewis, as she is still
called, though her married name is Wilson,
saved thirteen lives between 1869 and 1881
She does all her own house work, keeps the
light trimmed and burning, and finds time
to raise few flowers in the crevices of the
rocks.
Judge Tom Hughes, the Tribune says.
passed through New York last week on his
way to visit the English colony at Rugby,
Tenn. He is fairly contented with the
success of his colonization scheme but still
hopes for bigger things. Before returning
to England, Judge Hughes will go to Kan
sas to visit a son who lives there, and will
also stay few days in New York His
health is excellent and he is the same genial
man that he has always been If he is
growing old no one would suspect it.
The way in which starfsh disposes of
naturalist: Claspng the oyster in its rays,
it brings its mouth opposite the hinge.
From the mouth it pours secretion which
paralyzes the hinge muscle, and causes the
shells TO open. 1t cannot like u dog
whelk, extract its prey and put it into its
stomach, so it reverses the process, and
puts its stomach into, or rather over, the
oyster, protruding the stomach from its
mouth, surrounding the oyster with its
coats, digesting it, and then withdrawing
the stomach into its body.
The sword presented to Gen Miles by the
people of Arizona is said to be, with one
possible exception, the finest gift of the
kind ever received by an officer of our
army. The hilt is of white shark skin and
gold, and is set With huge amethyst 1t
is oruamented also with an engraved por-
trait Of Chief Nachez. The scabhard, which
is of gold, bears ON one side a portrait of
Geronimo, and series of pictures of war
fare on the frontier. On the other side is
the inscription of presentation. The Span
ish blade is so perfectly tempered that its
point can be made almost to touch the hilt
The cost is kept secret, hut is supposed TO
be not less than $4,000
Rebocca Beath, IA Detroit girl of fifteen
years of age, deserves great praise for he
roic conduct She was sailing ON the lake
with her parents and three of her brothers
and sisters, a few days ago, when "a squal
struck the boat aud capsized IT, Rehecca
was the only one who did not lose her pres
ence Of mind She swan about the boat
and first assisted her mother to II hold on
the keel then she helped the children TO a
place of safety, and 10y this time the mother
had slipped from the boat and sunk. Re
becca dived for her and brought her up. A
boat came to the rescue, but il was over
loaded, and 10 make room for the others
Rebecca jumped out and swan TO the up
turned boat, saying Come back for me. l
am all right.
/ The mystery that has surrounded the
murder of Mrs. Alonzo Stone Of Rochester
/ n. y who was found August rs lying
/ dead in the cellar with "A cloth tied tightly
| about her neck and a cash ON her forehead,
has been cleared up by the confession of
tramp who was arrested at Canandaigua
| August 10 for yagraucy The tramp says
| his name is +, sheldon, that hc was born
| in Oswego, is 10 years Old and ran away
| from an orphan asylum at the age of nine,
/ since which time he has been cOntinu ally
tramping. He went 10 Mrs, Stones house
and asked her for something 10 eat. She
refused and told him to go to work, lie
says she then slapped bis face and he
struck her with stick he carried Her
screams frightened him and he then seized
her throat aud choked her until she was
unconscious Then hc lifted a trap door,
dropped her into the cellar, aud tied the
cloth that was about her neck so tightly
that she could not breathe.